"She can be so silly sometimes and make you crack up, but I worry about her, too, because she doesn't have a problem approaching strangers. If a stranger approaches her, like on the bus or in the store, she'll strike up a conversation. That's what worries me about Jhessye," Hunter told an officer.

Hunter says she "went crazy" looking through their home and neighborhood for Jhessye, before calling police.

She suggests Jhessye wandered off into the neighborhood.

Hunter became emotional, crying at one point, when asked by an officer if she had anything to do with her daughter's disappearance.

"No, sir, I did not harm my baby," she sobbed loudly. "Like I said, I have nothing to hide."

Glendale Police eventually arrested Hunter, who should go to trial later this summer on murder and abuse charges.